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Politics Unpacked

Crime and Punishment

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As parliament debates the bills related to crime in the Queen's Speech, Matt Chorley speaks to Shadow Domestic Violence Minister Jess Philips, Former Durham Chief Constable Mike Barton and the Times' Crime Correspondent John Simpson about Labour and the government's plans to tackle crime, and where the real threats to society lie. 


PLUS


Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester discuss moral superiority. 



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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy

0:06.0

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to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low carbon

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be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

0:45.2

towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

0:52.8

green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:01.5

slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shulli. I hope you're well. Thank you

1:09.1

for all your lovely messages about Friday's episode, our little documentary on how to really

1:14.1

make a mess of a reshuffle. It was nice to hear from you all. And a hello to Ryan McCullen.

1:19.8

He is in San Francisco, listens to the podcast at the gym, love the pod, although it does

1:25.5

make me laugh out loud, which is occasionally a little awkward. Well, we do our best, Ryan

1:30.0

would do our best. Coming up on today's episode, tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime,

1:36.4

every political party in government talks about it. But what is the reality? We take a look at how

1:40.6

safe our streets really are and the government's latest plans to crack down on criminals. But first,

1:47.2

we kick off as ever of that columnist panel. It's Monday, so it must be Libby Rachel. It's Libby

1:51.0

Purvis and Rachel Vester. So we'll come to theatres and culture and all of that in a moment. Libby,

2:01.7

I've really taken by your column at the time today about moral superiority and this idea of

2:08.4

some people thinking that because they are goodies, then they can't be guilty of doing bad things.

2:16.1

Explain yourself. Well, it sparked off from the awful story, the way that big charities and

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